Random thoughts of a cubicular denizen at the OSU Open Source Lab
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When I first started working with Moodle servers, one of the things that bugged me was the fact that it required a complete install of the code for every site hosted on the system. While that’s fine for most circumstances, it really did not work well in our environment where we’re looking at potentially hosting hundreds of Moodle instances. So, in the fine open source tradition of scratching an itch by finding something someone else has done, modifying it, and then sharing it with the world … I give you shared-code Moodle, OSL-style.
First, though, credit where credit is due. Martin Langhoff posted almost all of what we needed to do here. All I needed to do is expand upon it to fit our needs.
Second, what the modified code actually does:
1) config.php looks in Moodle dirroot/multisite_config for an ini file matching the server name. I.E.: fqdn.domain.org.ini
2) If found, the ini file is parsed and used to populate the Moodle $CFG
On to the code!